Senior Image Data Scientist - Bioimage Analytics Lead

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; Lauderdale Courts (TN); On-site; USD 86,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

The Center for Bioimage Informatics at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is seeking two Senior Image Data Scientists to design, develop, validate, document, and operate image-analysis pipelines and visualization solutions for biomedical imaging research.

This role works with investigators, software engineers, data scientists, and biostatisticians to translate scientific questions into scalable analysis workflows using modern image analysis, ML, and statistical methods; it also leads

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in applied mathematics, physics, chemistry, bioinformatics, computer science, data science, computer engineering or related field.
• Master's degree preferred.
• 3+ years of work experience in relevant areas with Bachelor's degree; 1+ years with Master's.
• Experience in image analyses, image data management, and programming (Python, R, Matlab, Java, C/C++).
• Experience in image analysis platforms (ImageJ/Fiji, CellProfiler) and HPC environments; open-source software development.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, validate, document, and operate image-analysis pipelines and visualization solutions.
• Collaborate with investigators, software engineers, data scientists, and statisticians to translate questions into reproducible workflows.
• Provide technical consultation and training to research teams and lead project coordination.
• Lead multi-lab image-analysis projects and contribute to shared infrastructure.

Skills

Python

Computer vision

Machine learning

Deep learning

Statistical analysis

HPC

Snakemake/Nextflow

napari

Open-source software

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

napari

ImageJ/Fiji

Cellpose

SAM-family models

QuPath

BioFormats

OME-Zarr/NGFF

Job description

The Center for Bioimage Informatics at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is seeking two Senior Image Data Scientists to design, develop, validate, document, and operate image-analysis pipelines and visualization solutions for biomedical imaging research.

This role works with investigators, software engineers, data scientists, and biostatisticians to translate scientific questions into scalable analysis workflows using modern image analysis, ML, and statistical methods; it also leads